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You’ve just been ousted as the mayor of Congregation Fill-in-the-Blank!

That was the subject heading of an email that I received on Saturday night.

Sorry for the bad news, but Plonit-bat-Plonit has just ousted you as mayor of Congregation Fill-in-the-Blank!
Don’t take it too hard – a few more check-ins and you could be back on top…

Good Luck!
– Your friends @ foursquare

But it’s not really bad news, foursquare friends. And I won’t be “back on top.” It is bittersweet, to be sure. But I am not meant to be the mayor any longer. Time for others to step into the roles that I once filled.

The person (or persons) who sent you this obnoxious email is mean spirited even if it was meant to be a joke. All of us need to just pause before we let our Yetzer Hara get the best of us. I am genuinely sad that this happened no matter what the intention.
I and many others love you and miss you lots,

This was not an obnoxious email. It was from FourSquare, which is a location-based social networking website. As I am no longer able to “check-in” to Cong. Fill-in-the-Blank, I was bound to be displaced as the “mayor” sooner or later.

I miss you both and hope to see you when I am back on the bimah for “got Shabbat?” in February.

Oops! The thought occurred to me that perhaps there was more to the e-mail than what I was reading but I let my anger get the best of me and fired off my response before I thought it all the way through.
I’m fiercely protective of my friends and tend to get extremely defensive if I believe they’ve been “attacked.” I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing… 🙂
Looking forward to seeing you in February!

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